QUESTIONSIF ALL dogs bite and IF pit bulls are no more dangerous than labs or cocker spaniels, WHY do they need pit bulls for this seminar? Doesn't the use of pit bulls help feed the fear mongering that pit bulls are more dangerous? Why not use boxers or collies? OR, could it be that the instructor (Diane Nutter Jessup) needed a dog that had the ability to KNOCK DOWN an adult male police officer to demonstrate how critical it is that you should never be in the prostrate position with a biting dog? OR, was this just another stunt in an effort to show how wonderful pit bulls are?

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Seems Jessup as cut off from subsidization from the Pit Lobby around the time this article came out:

"It's not sensible to get an animal bred for bringing a 2,000-pound bull to its knees and say I'm going to treat this like a soft-mouth Labrador," says Jessup, the former animal-control officer. She blames novice owners, as much as actual criminals, for bringing the breed into disrepute. "It's a capable animal, and it's got to be treated as such."

When we first got pit bulls in, they were always friendly. They were always nice dogs," says Diane Jessup, a former animal-control officer in Olympia. Jessup has raised many pit bulls and written several books about them. "I will say now, in the last five years, 50 percent of the dogs are fearful, fear-biters with horribly unsound temperaments."

Why has her level of sense deteriorated? Maybe it's because of the money she's been getting from the pit lobby that has prevented her from being a responsible representative and educator on pit type dogs.

Many pit bulls are unsound due to how they're raised, but many are also unsound from the way they are bred.

They chosen the path of "It's the owner" since they can't regulate themselves and produce safe animals.

Here CDC Panelist Gail Golab now of the AVMA chimes in:

AVMA ANIMAL WELFARE DIRECTOR GAIL GOLAB CHIMES IN:

Dogs' breeding and training determine their aggressiveness, said Gail Golab, director of the American Veterinary Medical Association's animal welfare division. For example, Doberman pinschers were once "a big macho kind of dog" but have become more gentle and docile with breeding in recent years, she said.

The same could be done with pit bulls, which include American Staffordshire Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Bull Terriers and mixes of those breeds.

Bonnie Beaver is one of the head Nutters at Texas A&M University and former president of the AVMA...She is one of the "experts" fighting against BSL in Texas...

When she testified under oath for the prosecution back in 91' this is what she said:

KERRVILLE A 60-pound pit bulldog was capable of seriously injuring or killing two law officers because of the breed's development as a fighting animal, an animal-behavior expert testified in court Wednesday. "By its origin, a pit bull is a fighting dog that takes very little stimulous to initiate aggression, and it will continue to fight regardless of what happens," said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, chief of medicine of the Texas A&M

Beaver said pit bulldogs have been responsible for about 70 percent of the deaths of humans killed by dogs since 1979. The animals are capable of pulling more than 5,600 pounds of dead weight, she testified

Nicholas Dodman, a Tufts University animal behavioral specialist and author of “Dogs Behaving Badly,” agrees that pit bulls come with some baggage.

“Genetics does play a role and people who think it doesn’t are kidding themselves,” says Dodman. “The pit bull is notorious for a very hard bite. They are always No. 1 in the lethal dog bite parade. The dog was bred for pit fighting. It was bred to never give up, to bite and hang on.”

I often wonder why pit bull breeders who really care for the breed and want to really prove that their dogs are safe don't take some sort of initiative to produce genetic tests that show for a matter of fact that their line of dog is ideal as a pet.

Responsible breeders who care for the welfare of their animals generally have no hesitation in showing potential buyers the pedigree and medical tests that show what physical and mental defects the dog may have. Whether dominant or recessive.

So why are the so called responsible pit bull breeders hesitant of funding for a test that would genetically show which dogs are better to breed from and which ones should be prohibited? It is quite possibly the one way that the pit bull could truthfully earn the status as a good dog for any family environment if the breeders would just take the innitiviate and actually help the dogs they claim to love in the long run.

The Bulldog, devoted solely to the most barbarous and infamous purposes, the real blackguard of his species, has no claim upon utility, humanity, or common sense, and the total extinction of the breed is a desirable consummation.—"BRITISH FIELD SPORTS," 1818.

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